35 mile Reliability Ride ~ 12 April 2015

Spring weather doesn’t come much better than what was dished out to us today; I trust everyone who didn’t take part in this event had something equally good going on – if you didn’t, you missed a perfect cycling day.

It’s a lovely route, tried and tested over the years, with the bonus in recent years of a good café stop at Kirdford. This is the route.

35 mile Reliability Ride Route

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks, Hilary (to coffee) and Laurie (the whole way) for your company, particularly Laurie for your excellent pacing. The headwind home was challenging, particularly when you haven’t ridden a 50 mile ride since last year; suffering has never been so pleasurable. And I did just manage to make it up my hill without getting off – hurrah!

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Sunshine ride

Typical 100k six hour ride also including coffee stop in Savill Gardens, pub lunch and 5 miles of Thames at Henley towpath. Glorious!  Even time to stop In Windsor Great Park to allow the photographer (Chris Ball) to record the scene.
West Surrey CTC near Windsor

John Weatherburn’s American Trip

Many of you already know, eith er from my words at the annual dinner in February, or the Latest News post on 19 March, of John Weatherburn’s plans to to cycle 4,200 miles across America in May this year.  However, others have asked for details of how to access his blog which can be found:

http://www.92daysinthesaddle.wordpress.com

I would certainly suggest that even those who have visited the blog before do so again now, and feel even more committed to supporting him by visiting his site:

Just Giving page

Forty years ago – Chobham meet 23/3/75 – photo

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From L to R:  Chris Jeggo, David Wells, Clive Williamson, George Upton, John Harper, Gordon Appleby, Basil Vowler, John Coleman, Harold Coleman, Mark Smith (Bill Inder’s grandson), Clement Collins, Keith Parfitt, unknown tall young person above unknown short young person, Denis Gray, Bill Inder, ?, Dave Bell, Nick Muir